I tried a mirrorless. Have you?

flektogon wrote:

Roland Karlsson wrote:

Alex Sarbu wrote:

One of the things that annoys me a lot with EVFs is the smearing. Can't really fix that, it's because you are seeing the world in frames. But I'm not seeing that being mentioned often, I'd guess not many are bothered by it...

This reminds me of graphics for gamers.

Some well known research had shown that 25 FPS is more than enough. Humans cannot see more. But, gamers craved 60 FPS or some even 120 FPS, even though humans could not see it. Same with ping. Gamers craved much lower ping than humans can react to. Eventually, better research showed the gamers right. Everything changes dramatically if you are turning around quick an do try to hit something while the image is moving fast. Then it is not any longer a matter of reaction time, but synchronization time, where humans are much more accurate. Like all drummers knows. Drummers can hit the drums with a totally mind boggling accuracy.

Same goes for EVF. If you turn the camera around you are out of phase due to the very small delay. OK, that is not as important like when trying to hit someone with a rail gun. But, it is still annoying.

Well, I didn't have problems with 18 fps (Super 8 movies), no problems with 50 half frames/s (PAL TV) and later, when moved to Canada, it has been 60 hf/s. But, whenever I came back to Europe for visit, suddenly I saw that something is wrong with their TV . So yes, everything is coded in our brain. Once you are accustomed to, let's say 120 fps, then when you see only 60 fps, your brain will detect it immediately.

It is not only that. If it is very fast then it eventually become fast enough. Then it looks smooth. So, it is not so much being used to a specific speed, it is more being used to a slow speed.

I remember when I started playing Quake (1). It was 400x300 or VGA, you could choose, and VGA was too sloe, so we played with 400x300 and around 20 FPS in the best case. And it was on modems with at least 100 ms in ping, often more. And we found it plyable. Later it was 1600x1200 and 60 FPS, and it was impossible to go back.

And note, this was not only about a feeling. If you have 100 ms in ping and played at 20 FPS at 400x300 and the opponent had modern stuff, you are smoked.